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Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 12, 2019 at 01:59 PM
Darn, having just decided to give up Ulysses, I’ve received the promo e-mail describing the new features in Ulysses 15 (really!?!). They all sound rather enticing. On the other hand, Scrivener already has most of them - and doesn’t charge subscription fees.
It’s tough being a dyed-in-the-wool CRIMPer. But as you all know, someone’s got to do it…
Posted by Andy Brice
Feb 12, 2019 at 08:17 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>I like HyperPlan, but it’s not cross-platform at the moment,
It is cross-platform, in that it supports Windows and Mac.
Are you referring to the fact that it doesn’t currently support iOS or Android?
and to be
>honest, the Numbers setup allows me to create much the same kind of
>views (albeit manually, so without the neat automation - I love the x/y
>axis swap feature, incidentally). I’d love to see more variation in the
>HyperPlan card layout (“Appearance”), with e.g. the option to change
>font sizes for different parts of the display, use rich text, etc. But
>I’m sure that’s all on the roadmap.
The ability to have a lot more control over how text is displayed on a card is definitely high on the wishlist for v3.
> HyperPlan is definitely something I
>could get into if it was just a little bit more sophisticated and - aha
>- cross-platform. It’s already a very impressive product, however!
Thanks!
—
Andy Brice
https://www.hyperplan.com
Posted by JakeBernsteinWA
Feb 12, 2019 at 08:45 PM
I’ve been playing with the beta…and it’s really, really good. In fact, the new keyword manager and keyword filtering has just catapulted Ulysses to the top of the heap for me when it comes to storing and referencing my pure-text materials. It doesn’t have a good way to quick capture, but that’s what Drafts for Mac is for!
MadaboutDana wrote:
Darn, having just decided to give up Ulysses, I’ve received the promo
>e-mail describing the new features in Ulysses 15 (really!?!). They all
>sound rather enticing. On the other hand, Scrivener already has most of
>them - and doesn’t charge subscription fees.
>
>It’s tough being a dyed-in-the-wool CRIMPer. But as you all know,
>someone’s got to do it…
Posted by JakeBernsteinWA
Feb 14, 2019 at 08:49 PM
You probably already know this, but the Notebooks 2 for Mac beta is now public: https://www.notebooksapp.com/NBMac2-public-beta/
MadaboutDana wrote:
I found this very amusing, since I’m engaged in much the same process.
>I’ve been evaluating all the lovely apps I use for stuff, and have
>concluded that the ones I really need are limited to:
>
>- Numbers (increasingly important to me as a general note-taker,
>calculation engine and whiteboard)
>- Notebooks (although I’m impatiently looking forward to version 2 for
>macOS at the moment, due to the significant shortcomings of V1)
>- DEVONthink Pro Office (invaluable for storing large quantities of
>information, especially bitexts in PDF format, random research stuff
>etc.)
>- Notability for dealing with dictated input (doesn’t [yet] require a
>subscription - hooray!)
>- Soulver (as a quickie calculator when I can’t be bothered to set up a
>spreadsheet-style calculation in Numbers)
>
>Otherwise I’m still using MacJournal, because I’ve used it to store lots
>of encrypted info and don’t have an immediate alternative (until the
>advent of Notebooks 2 above). I also still use Curiota, but will be
>replacing it with Notebooks 2 once the latter arrives. I occasionally
>use Scrivener, but don’t write enough long-form novels/books enough to
>make it a heavy-use app.
>
>Apps I have, to my surprise, decided are redundant include: Bear,
>Ulysses, Outlinely, Keep It. I’m in the process of exporting the content
>at the moment (quite tedious, but not as bad as I thought it might be).
>The savings should be considerable!
>
>I use Scapple occasionally, too.
>
>As you will see, I am expecting Notebooks 2 for macOS to take over most
>of the functionality of multiple apps (Notebooks on iOS is already more
>sophisticated). As for outliners qua outliners – I love the
>folding thing, but am increasingly convinced that folding should be part
>of a larger structure (Pagico does it quite neatly, as it happens,
>although I’ve replaced my Pagico setup with a Numbers setup; so does
>Scrivener), hence my abandonment of Workflowy, OmniOutliner and similar
>apps.
>
>Saying that, I’ve worked out a way to make Numbers fold individual
>entries (tables, text notes etc.), which saves space and is actually
>quite elegantly managed by Numbers (which, when you unfold an item,
>pushes everything below it vertically downward - and then elegantly
>raises it up again when you close the item, so no disruption to the
>positioning of items even on a very extensive whiteboard-style
>worksheet. Nice. Actually, more than nice - everyone should do it!). The
>one major disadvantage to Numbers - and indeed all Apple iWorks apps -
>is the amount of space taken up by individual files. They really should
>opt for the compressed XML used by MS Office or, for that matter,
>LibreOffice etc. It’s a bit ridiculous that a fairly basic spreadsheet
>should take up around a quarter of a megabyte!
>
>I like HyperPlan, but it’s not cross-platform at the moment, and to be
>honest, the Numbers setup allows me to create much the same kind of
>views (albeit manually, so without the neat automation - I love the x/y
>axis swap feature, incidentally). I’d love to see more variation in the
>HyperPlan card layout (“Appearance”), with e.g. the option to change
>font sizes for different parts of the display, use rich text, etc. But
>I’m sure that’s all on the roadmap. HyperPlan is definitely something I
>could get into if it was just a little bit more sophisticated and - aha
>- cross-platform. It’s already a very impressive product, however!
>
>Cheers,
>Bill
>
>Dellu wrote:
>>I am removing every productivity app except DEVONthink & Scapple.
>>I will see if I will be less productive.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 15, 2019 at 08:26 AM
Dang, Jake, as a matter of fact I *didn’t* know that - whoopee! I shall go and play…
Many thanks!
Bill
JakeBernsteinWA wrote:
You probably already know this, but the Notebooks 2 for Mac beta is now
>public: https://www.notebooksapp.com/NBMac2-public-beta/